CNC Projects

I recently purchased a miniature hobby CNC machine. I have completed a couple of projects since, and the most complex project is shown in the images below. The machine is not very powerful, so feeds and speeds must be chosen carefully depending on the material. I’ve found that oak and aluminum are the toughest materials it can handle and must be used very slowly. I have mostly used 3D adaptive clearing, contours and tracing toolpaths.

Shown above is my CNC machine. Its fairly unreliable and not too smart, so g-code has to be manually altered frequently. Below is my first and most complex project with it so far, a wedding gift.

I learned how to CNC with this, using multiple tool paths with multiple bits to come to this final form.

These are a few of the smaller projects that I've completed since, one a belt component for Transcend Bicycle and the other a gift for my little cousin.